严复是中国近代史上最重要的启蒙思想家之一,当时被誉为“输入西学第一人”,蔡元培先生说:“五十年来,介绍西洋哲学的,要推侯官严复为第一。”他第一个把西方资产阶级社会政治学说和经济学说系统地介绍到中国,给19世纪末处于“学问饥荒”时代的中国引入了一股清泉。严复的翻译创作并非没有选择 Yan Fu was one of the most important enlightenment thinkers in modern Chinese history, at that time hailed as “the first person to enter Western China,” and Mr. Cai Yuanpei said: “For 50 years, when introducing Western philosophy, Yan Hou first officer should be pushed.” The first systematic introduction of western bourgeois social politics and economics into China introduced a fresh spring to China in the era of “learned famine” in the late 19th century. Yan Fu’s translation is not without choice